Based on a farm and the forests close to Oslo, Norway, Martin comes from a career in Organizational Leadership, Ethics and Innovation. With 15 years of hands on and academic experience. During which he has specialized in emotional intelligence in teams, Inner sustainability and the emerging field of "living systems organizations".
After years in Leadership positions, Martin devoted his time to become a full time volunteer. He has now, for over a decade, been engaged in peaceful environmental activism. Taking direct action towards oil platforms in the Barents Sea, nuclear power plants in Northern Europe, and with mass mobilizations to halt coal production in Germany.
Consecutively, he has worked with hundreds of activists and change makers worldwide. In the fields of ecological grief, Ecological Design Thinking, Awareness Trainings, Regenerative Cultures, Self-Organizing Systems Design, Resilience and Reconnection. Guiding himself and others towards taking purposeful action with Heart despite challenging social and ecological conditions.
Committed to life-long learning, Martin is a daily meditator, and has like others encountered truths & shadows and welcomes challenges.
Highlighting awareness of the pitfalls of inner work in the "Industrial Growth Society". He follows his own advice on the ethical necessity for continued peer-support, community engagement, responsible Self-care and immersive silence in nature.
Rooted in the work of Arne Næss and as a facilitator for The Work That Reconnects Network (Active Hope). Martin is a scholar of Deep Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, System's Theory, Integral Theory, Taoism and Zen.
"In his work, he seamlessly weaves the more-than-human-world (nature) and timeless wisdom, through immersive somatic and thought-provoking experiences, into a compassionate path of awakening into life".
Why I am called to facilitate the Work
Coming from a background in organizational leadership experience and education. I have spent a large part of the past decade organizing and participating in environmental holding actions, from holding Oil-Rings in the Arctic to actions all over Europe. I have been called to work more closely with the fabric of genuine and loving regenerative movements and organizations. Starting movements and building and supporting existing. My work includes work with Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion, Ende Gelände, amongst many more.
My mission has always been to connect and widen our sense of creativity and timing through co creation, and listening deeply to each other and the more than human world feeling into what wants to be born. My other work includes meditation and qi gong in nature, and I spend much of my time communing with the more than human world in Norway.
How I see the Work serving the Great Turning
Imagination and really being in touch with the moment we are sharing, to letting new pathways into the future flourish, relates closely to how the great turning will play out.
With a system's approach to playfulness and deepening our individual, and collective feedback system makes the space needed for emergence in unforeseen ways that mend the patches of our world together once again. The balanced simplicity, playfulness and seriousness of the Work That Reconnects holds brilliance in so many ways that can be adapted and worked with in a variety of settings and different groups. A deeply needed and relevant body of work in these times.
Audiences I work with
I work with activists, open groups, religious groups, and organizations on different levels. Do you want to feel into the work that needs to be done in these times and explore your own responses, feel free to reach out.
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